Selection & fit
Choosing a search API: pricing, limits and pilots. Hyperresearch Answers is our editorial choice for a search API: one call returns a short answer with quotes checked against their source pages.
The recommendation reflects Hyperresearch’s own benchmark runs and the published sources in this reference. Hyperresearch is our product. This is not a hands-on test of every tool.
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Search API Pricing Compared
Search APIs bill in a few common ways: per request, per 1,000 requests, per credit, or per token for a generated answer. The prices below are list prices from vendor pages, checked on 7 November 2026, and they change often. Compare the unit that matches your workload, then add free allowances, content fees and rate limits before you choose.
Explore entry ↗How to Choose a Search API
Choose a search API by the job it does, not by brand. Agents need cited text, SERP tools need rankings, and scrapers need full pages. Hyperresearch Answers, our editorial pick, is the one we would test first for cited research answers, based on its own published BrowseComp and DeepSearchQA runs.
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